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Changing our habits first is the way most people start global warming solutions. It’s effective, plus pretty much automatically gives one a heck of an education. And it pays to focus on big things that matter: Compassionate food choices and…

Sometimes a story frames the big picture around global warming simply and clearly… I see this fifteen year old taking a leadership role, and ask myself: “How can I follow the example of this kid? Do I even have her…

There are many ways to green our daily lives… but a great tool most people don’t think of is greening our investments. In particular, at least stop doing harm by dumping any investment in oil, coal or natural gas companies…

Get started, taking action on solutions to our emerging climate crisis… while celebrating good jobs and clean, prosperous lives for millions. In a very real sense, we are inventing the healthy civilization of the future. It starts with YOU. The…

This has been a brutally hot summer so far, breaking records all around the world. This is NOT normal… the excess heat we are seeing in the atmosphere will transfer – as it always does – to the oceans, which…

As a kid, I always watched the grown ups… Like a young hawk, I absorbed the examples they set: They showed me how I should live, what leadership looks like. They showed me that I have power and a voice.…

An excellent action handbook comes to us from Al Gore, Nobel Peace Prize winner and world leader of the fight to slow the emerging climate crisis. Gore’s new book Truth to Power: Your Action Handbook to Learn the Science, Find Your Voice,…

It turns out reducing food waste is the third most powerful way to fight global warming. And, a refreshing bonus, it saves hard-earned money – in effect giving each of us a pay raise. This is as true for families as it is for…

I like this pope. Speaking to invited oil industry leaders in the Vatican in early June, Pope Francis reminded them of the moral argument for fighting the emerging climate crisis, as well as ethical principles that should be followed by…

Why WOULDN’T anyone want to go work in Hawaii for a few years? Here’s a great piece from Fast Company, “Hawaii Just Passed a Law to Make the State Carbon-Neutral by 2045.” This creates good jobs and business opportunities in…

As a business person and a climate solutions fan, I look for trends where the two intersect. Corporations and families are learning to nullify greenhouse gas pollution produced by their operations or by family energy and travel. How? Pay others…

Who knew fighting global warming could taste so good? Yummy plant-based meat substitutes are a rapidly growing new market, not just saving the planet but in the process also creating great new jobs as well as a solid business opportunity. …

Hello friends, welcome… are you asking yourself, “OK, I get it. How do I do my part?” Get started, taking action on solutions to our emerging climate crisis… while celebrating good jobs and clean, prosperous lives for millions. In a very…

Hey, busy people, here is a new, concise animation showing the increasing temperatures of recent decades. (It’s actually kind of hypnotic, fun to watch…) I’d say it’s important to share the animation with family and friends – to gently and…

Photo memes are a quick, punchy tool you and I can use to fight global warming: We can use them to keep climate change solutions top-of-mind, among people we want to influence. That’s what it’s all about… each of us…

Great news: Clean energy has reached what venture capitalists call “an inflection point.” There is no stopping it, and it has become a worldwide, major positive trend. Fossil fuel industry attempts to kill renewable energy have failed, and all signs…

Soon it will be time to get in on the emerging carbon fiber industry… especially now that researchers can make the ultrastrong, ultralight steel-replacement out of plants instead of petroleum, as explained in this article in Popular Science by Jeremiah…

Although our site emphasizes the many positive, empowering things humanity is doing to slow the emerging climate crisis, it is important at year-end to do a reality check. Big changes continue… the news is sobering, according to this piece recapping…

One of the most dangerous things about the emerging global warming crisis is the organized, well-funded opposition to any reasonable action – opposition even to a fair reading of the science, in particular inside the United States. Here is an…

Several years ago I went through a period becoming educated about global warming. It blew my mind. Along the way I realized one solution any of us can do immediately is to get in the habit of doing a Green Good…

From Eryn Gable of the healthy lifestyle website The Spruce: “The choices we make in our everyday lives have a profound effect on our environment, but there are simple actions you can take to reduce that impact. Here’s a list…

Here’s a great article from The Guardian, reporting that “electric cars are already cheaper to own and run than petrol or diesel cars in the UK, US and Japan, new research shows.” This data confirms my own experience as an…

Billionaire businessman Michael Bloomberg certainly used his voice in an awesome way this week, by giving $50 million of his own money to advocate internationally to replace filthy coal with cleaner energy. This is in addition to $165 million he…

There aren’t many with as fine a voice as Paul McCartney’s, and his is taking the new U.S. administration to task for its weakness at fighting climate change. According to the BBC, the former Beatle criticised President Trump’s attitude towards climate…

The United States government Friday published its most-weighty report yet on the unfolding climate change crisis, drawing on over 1,500 peer-reviewed scientific papers, according to National Public Radio’s All Things Considered: Read their article or hear the broadcast here. In…

Here’s a list of 17 things we can do in our day-to-day lives to reduce our carbon footprint… the list comes from the Global Catholic Climate Movement. The important thing is just get started – the feeling of satisfaction of…

Astonishing news from the auto industry this week: “General Motors said Monday that it plans to electrify its entire lineup, bringing at least 20 models to the U.S. market by 2023, including two electric vehicles within the next 18 months,”…

The moral obligation created by climate change, it turns out, is the same for people of faith and for non-religious people. So, many of us are coming to realize that no one has the right to injure others, especially the weakest among…

Emotion from the 2016 U.S. election triggered a wave of new people running for office… and that includes people serious about protecting our future from environmental harm. Though the impulse comes from concern, for many it will be the most…

Tesla and Panasonic have launched the most exciting home construction product in decades: Attractive high-end roofing tiles that look like expensive slate, and capture the sun’s energy for home electricity use. Think of it: We periodically need a new roof…